Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 10:35:31 -0400 From: dennis@etinc.com (Dennis) To: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD box as a router Message-ID: <199609181435.KAA02942@etinc.com>
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J. Greco writes.... >If you just need static routing, 8MB is plenty adequate. If you want to >use Gated and do BGP4, etc, you will probably need more (since I haven't >had to start doing this myself, I don't know how much more). a LOT! like 48Meg to hold a full table and to handle worst-case situations. > >The machine is a 486DX/133 with two Kingston KNE-40T's (DEC 21041) and >one of the Emerging Technologies ET-50XX cards running a T1 CSU/DSU. >It can saturate all its links simultaneously with bandwidth to spare... >unless all the packets are really small. I start seeing lost packets once >I get into the 4000 pkts/sec range, IIRC. It is a great router :-) > of course this is nothing that some extra memory wouldn't fix. But 4000pps is very high for a single T1. Dennis
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